I will skip the part about today being another nice day. There were 2 hours of pure humans today, which meant 2 hours of pure slacking time. Ru ri, Jie Ying and I (the pure slackers) went to the hall to do CIP and provide some entertainment for ourselves. Jie Ying came very prepared with a few cloths and a big bottle of piano polish. I nearly typed "piano sauce". It really looked like some mustard thing. I bet if she left it in the canteen, it would have been snapped up eagerly. Jie Ying polished the hall piano. There was really a lot of difference. After the professional polishing, the piano seemed to sparkle though it was black in colour. And the ultimate test: my teeth seemed white when I smiled at the piano. Ru ri and I helped out too. I helped Jie Ying reach the not-so-easy-to-reach places and I found that tiring enough. I think Jie Ying did 99% of the polishing. Ru ri and I played music and gave moral support, both of which are vital aspects of piano polishing.

I think I am slightly addicted to Totoro after listening to Jie Ying and Ru ri try out the duet. They told me it's a cartoon about this cute monster. What I don't get is, how can a monster be cute? Monsters are supposed to go ROAR and not sing some happy songs. Weird monster. Actually, poor monster. It's mentally unsound. Listen to Totoro. I guarantee you it sounds nice. But I just felt like laughing at the monster or whatever it is while watching the cartoon Ru ri sent me. Oh man... this is bad. This thing kept running through my head today. It was worse when I was reminded of it over the phone.

Pure slacking time today was very productive. Productive slacking. I think I've violined for 3 hours in total today, and it's not even a cca day. Managed to fix up considerable portions of Beethoven's Romance in G and From My Homeland by Smetana. 3 plus months to O level practical. Going to have to practice with Ru ri like crazy from all pure slacking periods onwards.

I stayed back until 2pm in school (to disturb jie ying and evangeline) before making my way to NJC for the DSA audition. I reached early, despite the all the walking and climbing I had to do. It's quite nice and windy up at the office level (about the 6th storey of a HDB flat) so it was like some reward after the hard work. I went into the audition room with another cellist from MGS. I won't comment on her playing since I don't play the cello. I went through the audition first. I played the piece I had prepared (some slow Bach sarabande). When I finished, the conductor asked me to play a contrasting piece. I panicked a bit because I wasn't warned beforehand. Firstly, they told me to prepare a piece 3 days before the audition. Next, they scare me on the spot by asking me to play something I wasn't prepared for. And more importantly, a fast piece. I had no choice but to play the next movement, which was the Gigue. Thankfully, I managed to play it quite ok-ly. Then I was tested on some scales and they asked a few questions. I made some mistakes due to nervousness, but they weren't really noticeable so I think it's ok. Oh, Jie Ying, I wasn't blur.

Yay there's no school tomorrow. Only those who take lit have to go, so I'm having my first day of holiday tomorrow. I think I'll be so bored I'll start walking around the house aimlessly.